Jonathan Mark Lawrence, FRHistS (born 1961) is a British historian.
Since 2019, he has been Professor of Modern British History at the University of Exeter.
Born in 1961,[1] he attended King's College, Cambridge; after graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1983, he completed doctoral studies.
In 1989, he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree[2] for his thesis "Party Politics and the People: Continuity and Change in the Political History of Wolverhampton, 1815–1914", which was supervised by Gareth Stedman Jones.
[11] In 2017, he gave the annual Neale Lecture at University College London on the topic "The Culture Wars of Class in Post-War Britain".